Sinophobia in Canada: The Vancouver housing crisis with Chinese characteristics
admin July 22, 2019 0 COMMENTSNg Weng Hoong in VancouverJuly 22, 2019, Monday 12.41 pm3,052 words minus headline and footnotes Student Rose Wu has written a poignant commentary about how Vancouver’s decade-long challenges with housing affordability has turned into a racial discourse. Her 678-word piece (1) in the online publication, The Tyee, should be compulsory reading for the handful of […]
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B.C. NDP’s Money Laundering Reports: On David Eby’s Trail of Embedded Bombshells
admin May 22, 2019 0 COMMENTSNg Weng Hoong in VancouverMay 20, 2019, Monday, 9.00 am 2,498 words, minus headline To widespread applause, British Columbia’s New Democratic Party-led government announced on May 15 that it will be launching a full public inquiry into the scourge of money laundering. Premier John Horgan’s decision came days after the release of the final reports […]
READ MOREThe power of Douglas Todd: Vancouver Sun and PostMedia Group preserve star columnist’s false comment
admin March 14, 2019 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, March 14, 2019, Thursday By Ng Weng Hoong in Vancouver, B.C. The Vancouver Sun’s veteran columnist on diversity and immigration, Douglas Todd, is among British Columbia’s best-known journalists. On March 8, he wrote (1) about China’s long reach into Canada, exercised through the rising population of Chinese students and journalists in this country. There’s […]
READ MOREThe rise of Chinese student power casts further uncertainty over Canada-China ties
admin February 25, 2019 0 COMMENTSFebruary 25, 2019, Monday Ng Weng Hoong Canadians’ opinion of China, on a downward trajectory over the last few years, may have hit a new low in the wake of the angry displays of Chinese student power at two university events in Ontario province early this month. A group of Chinese students campaigned aggressively to […]
READ MOREUyghur Leader’s Ottawa Visit Set To Further Inflame Canada-China Tensions
admin February 4, 2019 0 COMMENTSPART 1 OF 2-PART SERIES OnePacificNews, February 4, 2019, Monday, 11.45 am Pacific Time By Ng Weng Hoong Canada’s troubled ties with China could be headed for another blow-up in the coming weeks to add to the Huawei political crisis that is still unfolding in Ottawa. The president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) who […]
READ MOREOnePacificNews, January 17, 2019, Thursday Ng Weng Hoong Future historians reflecting on the current implosion in US-China relations should include a section on the phenomenon of the large group of young Chinese who have been coming to study in North America since the turn of the century. In 2018, more than 340,000 (1) Chinese nationals were registered […]
READ MOREChina’s soft power on display: Disappearing lawyers, Uyghurs, and Tibetan Buddhists
admin December 29, 2018 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, December 29 2018, Saturday Ng Weng Hoong, Twitter: @WengCouver More than five years on as communist China’s most powerful leader since founder Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping has given the world a full view of his ‘soft power’ strategy to win friends and influence people. On the foreign policy front, it is mostly about using […]
READ MOREOnePacificNews, December 7, 2018, Friday Ng Weng Hoong, Twitter: @WengCouver Donald Trump is struggling to build a wall to stop Mexican and other migrants from entering the US, but the work on his other wall to keep China out is making rapid progress. Canada’s arrest of Huawei Technologies Co’s chief financial officer on behalf of […]
READ MOREOnePacificNews, December 6, 2018, Thursday Twitter: @WengCouver US President Donald Trump, the nemesis of China and so many other countries, has proved enduringly popular with the Chinese people. On Weibo, he’s frequently mentioned in a positive light. This has been one of Trump’s standout paradoxes since he started his run for the White House job […]
READ MOREOnePacificNews, November 26, 2018, Monday Twitter: @WengCouver Malaysians delivered a political earthquake last May when they voted in a new government to replace the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition that had been in power since the country gained independence in 1957. The people were seemingly so scandalised by the level of corruption under the nine-year rule […]
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